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To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw. Good nature engages everybody to him. Addison.

The act of enrolling; registration. Holland.

cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.

To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.

To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall. The bars survive the captive they enthrall. Byron.

The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis.

s epigrams, or makes use of them. The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes.

An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State. Shipley.

The sea holly. See Eryngo.

One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.

of umbelliferous plants somewhat like thistles in appearance. Eryngium maritimum, or sea holly, has been highly esteemed as an aphrodisiac, the roots being formerly candied.

shell of an escalop, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Hence:

To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors. To escape out of these meshes. Thackeray.

ted, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture.

One who espies; a spy; a scout. [Obs.] "Their espials . . . brought word." Holland.

One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. T. Burnet.

ied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of "Justification by Faith alone"; the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox. Evangelical Alliance, an alliance for mutual strengthening and common work, co…

The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble. Eve churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- cal…

one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics. Darwin.